I need feminism because having piercings or tattoos in certain locations should not make women either “sexy and edgy” or “unattractive and unladylike” and should not make men “fags” or “too girly.” Body mods should not determine the validity of a gender.
”Fight boredom with feminism” - it’s def my life, but its also borrowed from http://hello-amber.tumblr.com yeh !
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Ran across these links at http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/
Online Articles:
Indigenous Feminism Without Apology, by Andrea Smith
Anti-Colonial Responses to Gender Violence, by Andrea Smith
If you tell someone you are a feminist, they laugh and go, “Oh, great. She’s probably got hairy legs.” They assume you are a lesbian (not that there is anything wrong with lesbians or anything, but I’m not one), they assume you’re making big deals out of little things that…
YES BASICALLY.
Sometimes it feels like my decision/natural conclusion to become a feminist is more controversial than being transsexual.
Really though, I’m quite used to judging stares. They’re never gonna go away so I might as well just party in my underwear with a strap-on and a tutu with the Original Plumbing shirt that says ‘Nobody knows that I am a transsexual’.


